2010-04-22
Original: 2010-04-22 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A woman with red hair in a green shirt sits at a bar next to a woman with dark hair in a purple shirt. A wine bottle sits in front of the red-haired woman; a beer mug in front of the dark-haired woman.
Red-haired woman: I gotta come out of the closet. I gotta tell my husband I'm a robot wrapped in humanoid flesh.
Panel 2:
Dark-haired woman: Don't just do it! Save it for when you can reap some added benefits!
Red-haired woman: Like what?
Panel 3 (caption banner): TWO WEEKS LATER...
The red-haired woman's head is engulfed in flames, holding a lighter to her own face while pouring from a can labeled GAS. She faces a man (Steven).
Red-haired woman: You drove me to this, Steven! Look at me! LOOK AT ME!!
Panel 4: A close-up of the man's face, looking stunned and grim against an orange background.
Panel 5: The flesh has burned away, revealing a grey robotic skull with glowing red eyes and a small remaining tuft of flame. She still wears the green shirt.
Robot woman: Ha! Gotcha. I'm a robot. But seriously, do your fair share of the laundry.
Votey:
Close-up of the grey robotic skull face with glowing red eyes and metal teeth.
Caption (handwritten): AND THE DISHES!
Red-haired woman: I gotta come out of the closet. I gotta tell my husband I'm a robot wrapped in humanoid flesh.
Panel 2:
Dark-haired woman: Don't just do it! Save it for when you can reap some added benefits!
Red-haired woman: Like what?
Panel 3 (caption banner): TWO WEEKS LATER...
The red-haired woman's head is engulfed in flames, holding a lighter to her own face while pouring from a can labeled GAS. She faces a man (Steven).
Red-haired woman: You drove me to this, Steven! Look at me! LOOK AT ME!!
Panel 4: A close-up of the man's face, looking stunned and grim against an orange background.
Panel 5: The flesh has burned away, revealing a grey robotic skull with glowing red eyes and a small remaining tuft of flame. She still wears the green shirt.
Robot woman: Ha! Gotcha. I'm a robot. But seriously, do your fair share of the laundry.
Votey:
Close-up of the grey robotic skull face with glowing red eyes and metal teeth.
Caption (handwritten): AND THE DISHES!
Alt text
A five-panel comic. Panel 1: a red-haired woman in a green shirt sits at a bar beside a dark-haired friend and says, "I gotta come out of the closet. I gotta tell my husband I'm a robot wrapped in humanoid flesh." Panel 2: the friend advises, "Don't just do it! Save it for when you can reap some added benefits!" The red-haired woman asks, "Like what?" Panel 3, captioned TWO WEEKS LATER: the red-haired woman dramatically sets her own face on fire, holding a lighter while pouring from a can labeled GAS, shouting at a man, "You drove me to this, Steven! Look at me! LOOK AT ME!!" Panel 4: a close-up of the stunned man's face on an orange background. Panel 5: the burned-away flesh reveals a grey robot skull with glowing red eyes; she calmly says, "Ha! Gotcha. I'm a robot. But seriously, do your fair share of the laundry." Votey: a close-up of the grey robot skull face with red eyes and a tiny flame, with the handwritten caption "AND THE DISHES!" The joke: she stages a fiery dramatic reveal of being a robot purely as leverage to make her husband do more chores.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.